Anniversaires De Shakespeare

“This lecture aims to understand why Shakespeare is still so powerfully with us, despite the four centuries’ distance, and today’s meagre knowledge of literary history. My answer, based on my reading of Hamlet but also of other plays, especially Antony and Cleopatra and The Winter’s Tale, is that Shakespeare’s sensibility to the poetic potentials of the dramatic medium gave him access to a mode of thought where being is constantly threatened with amnesia if not actual censorhip, particularly where relationships between man and woman are involved.”

Yves Bonnefoy (Collège de France, member of PSL)

Press Officer: Nathalie Gasser +33 6 07 78 06 10/ [email protected]

2 PATRONS, PARTNERS AND SPONSORS

Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL Research University) Rectorat de Paris Société Française Shakespeare

Théâtre de l'Odéon Musée Delacroix Musée Victor Hugo Opéra de Paris Comédie-Française BnF/ Arts du spectacle Centre National du Livre Centre des Monuments nationaux Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme Centre National du Costume de Scène France-Culture Festival d’Avignon Maison Jean Vilar French Debating Association Éditions Thierry Marchaisse Librairie Shakespeare and Co. Librairie Le Coupe-papier Jour2fête Carlotta Films

École Normale Supérieure rue d'Ulm, member of PSL Mines ParisTech, member of PSL Paris III – Sorbonne Nouvelle PRISMES (EA 4398) Paris IV Sorbonne VALE (EA 4085) Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense HAR (EA 4414) Caen ERIBIA Le Havre GRIC (EA 4314) Picardie – Jules Verne CERCLL (EA 4283) Rennes II ACE (EA 1796) CNRS /IRCL Montpellier III (UMR 5186) Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur

King’s College London Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft European Shakespeare Research Association Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre Fundación Shakespeare Argentina Centro Estudos Shakespeareanos Brazil Shakespeare Society of Japan International Shakespeare Association

Fondation Hermès Ville de Paris – DDEEES dispositif ‘Colloques internationaux à Paris’ Ambassade du Royaume-Uni His Serene Highness Prince Albert of Monaco British Council Région Ile-de-France Aéroports de Paris

3 SHAKESPEARE 450 PARIS, 21-27 APRIL 2014

Presentation

Two significant anniversaries are coming up, in April 2014 (450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth) and 2016 (fourth centenary of his death), which the Société Française Shakespeare (SFS) is preparing to celebrate with a programme of events stretching over the next three years. Shakespeare has been for several decades the most frequently performed playwright around the world. The universal appeal of his work was showcased in London during the Olympic Games, when the Globe featured the complete canon in thirty-seven languages, from A (Albania ) to Z (Zimbabwe).

This programme of events, supported by the Ministry of Culture and Communication, is built in partnership with Théâtre de l’Odéon, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris-III, Paris Sciences et Lettres, Rectorat de Paris, various research centres (CREA from Nanterre University, CNRS/IRCL in Montpellier, Centre de Recherche en Langues et Littérature d’Amiens, Groupe de Recherche Identités Cultures du Havre, Unité de Recherches Rennes-II), King’s College who monitor the 2016 Anniversary in London, as well as the Musée Delacroix, Musée Victor Hugo, Centre National du Costume de Scène, BnF/ Arts du spectacle, Centre National du Livre, Opéra de Paris, MC 93, Maison Jean Vilar and the Avignon Festival…

4 The 2014 project, “Shakespeare: une passion française”, has its source in the poet’s rising influence on writers and artists in France from the 1820s. A weeklong international conference, Shakespeare 450 will gather some four hundred foreign participants, many world-renowned scholars among them, who will question the meaning and impact of his works in their own culture. Over sixty panels, seminars and workshops will confront studies and theories in this most active field of academic research. It will also bring in closer relation academic research centres and cultural institutions involved in the Shakespeare 450 programme through theatrical and operatic productions, exhibitions, readings, and the world premiere of a film in concert (see Cultural Events section). We also expect a large number of PhD students, some of whom will act as hosts and guides during the conference. Also under way, a programme designed for schoolchildren in partnership with higher education administrators will invite classes to devise a theme of study, recreation, reading, performance or exchange with foreign correspondents centred on Shakespeare’s plays.

2014 Conference of the Société Française Shakespeare The conference, exceptionally this year, will spread over a whole week, 21-27 April 2014, alternating keynote lectures, seminars, panels, workshops and roundtables with visits to the various places where special exhibitions and performances will be held in honour of this momentous anniversary.

A multilingual website dedicated to past and future celebrations keeps and updates the agenda of events around the world:

http://www.shakespeareanniversary.org

5 About the Société Française Shakespeare

http://shakespeare.revues.org

The Société Française Shakespeare (SFS) is a non-profit professional organization created in 1975 by a group of academics gathered by Jean Jacquot, the founder of musicology and theatre studies at the CNRS (the largest research institution in France). The SFS brings together academics and theatre professionals, including directors, actors, scenographers, authors and translators from around the world, to discuss Shakespeare’s work during an annual conference. Since the creation of the SFS, many directors have attended these conferences, including Guy Rétoré, Antoine Vitez, Peter Brook, Terry Hands, Robert Hossein, Roger Planchon, Gabriel Garran, Marcel Maréchal, Jorge Lavelli, Lluis Pasqual, Daniel Mesguich, Denis Llorca, Jean-Pierre Vincent, François Marthouret, Stuart Seide, Georges Lavaudant, Jane Howell, Stéphane Braunschweig, Philippe Adrien, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Arthur Nauzyciel; actors Sylvia Montfort, Sian Thomas, Patrick Stewart, Philippe Avron, Gérard Desarthe, Brian Cox, Philippe Torreton, Jean-Yves and Eric Ruf; scenographers Yannis Kokkos, Guy-Claude François; writers and critics Valère Novarina, Yves Bonnefoy, George Steiner, Philippe Sollers, René Girard, Bernard Dort; classics specialists Jean-Pierre Vernant, Nicole Loraux, Jean Bollack, Bernard Sichère; theatre head managers Michael Attenborough, Patrick Sommier, as well as Andrew Wade (head of the Voice Department of Royal Shakespeare Company), David Pearce (director of the Rose Theatre), Stanley Wells (editor of the Complete Oxford Shakespeare), Michael Coveney (theatre critic from Whatsonstage.com), Jerzy Limon (founder of the Gdansk Shakespeare Festival)...

The Société Française Shakespeare welcomes:

• academics from around the world specializing in Shakespeare studies, performance studies, Early Modern English literature and history; • graduate students studying in these fields; • teachers and students interested by Shakespeare or connected topics (the French or European Renaissance, theatre studies, art history, etc.) • theatre professionals • Shakespeare enthusiasts.

6 Cultural Programme

21 APRIL: O THELLO, DIR. ORSON WELLES (USA/Italy/Morocco/France, 93’, 1952, B&W)

A few years after the release of Macbeth in 1948, director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil) decided to adapt another play by Shakespeare: Othello. The shooting proved chaotic: the first producer abandoned the project, the film had to be unexpectedly recast and a number of financial problems forced Welles to interrupt shooting several times. The result is a stunning adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy. The actor-director, working alongside celebrated decorator Alexandre Trauner, played on the contrasts between light and shadow in each shot of this aesthetically amazing Othello. The film, which was rewarded with the Grand Prix at the Cannes Festival in 1952, has been digitally remastered for this release.

Pre-release screening at Le Nouveau Latina 20 rue du Temple, 75004 Paris

In partnership with Carlotta Films.

7 22 APRIL: FILM- CONCERT: H AMLET, DIR. SVEND GADE AND HEINZ SCHALL (Germany, 110’, 1921, silent film) Original score by Robin Harris

©Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt. Hamlet by Svend Gade and Heinz Schall

World premiere of the original score by Robin Harris (2014), commissioned by the Société Française Shakespeare, performed with Laura Anstee

The film will be introduced by Prof. Judith Buchanan (University of York)

Auditorium Saint-Germain 4 rue Félibien, 75006 Paris

Conference participants are invited to the premiere. Event open to the public, with prior booking. To book tickets: http://www.shakespeareanniversary.org/shake450/cultural-events/hamlet-purchase-tickets/

8 24 APRIL: I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI, BY V. BELLINI AND F. ROMANI An opera by Vincenzo Bellini in two acts. Libretto by Felice Romani.

Bruno Campanella Conductor Robert Carsen Stage director Michael Levine Sets and costumes Davy Cunningham Lighting Alessandro di Stefano Chorus master

Paul Gay Capellio Ekaterina Siurina Giulietta Karine Deshayes Romeo Charles Castronovo Tebaldo Nahuel di Pierro Lorenzo Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus

When he adapted Romeo and Juliet, the librettist Felice Romani chose to go back in time past Shakespeare, to the Italian origins of the legend. He tightened the storyline, editing out Mercutio, the nurse, the moonlight and the nightingale… The drama becomes more somber, the quarrel between the two families a veritable feud. The music of the two lovers, whose lives are crossed and intertwined, overwhelms the soul and illuminates the world. Under the baton of Bruno Campanella, Ekaterina Siurina and Karine Deshayes lend their voices to the lovers, themselves embraced by Bellini’s intensely dramatic music.

Dates: April 24, 2014 (opening night performance) and April 26, 2014 at 19:30.

9 24 APRIL: M ACBETH, DIR. ARIANE MNOUCHKINE In French.

Directed by Ariane Mnouchkine Music by Jean-Jacques Lemêtre

Théâtre du Soleil Cartoucherie de Vincennes www.theatre-du-soleil.fr

“Evil stands behind the door. You can hear it scream. Macbeth should never had thought of opening the door. Too late strikes like lightning. Be warned! We think we should never allow the Macbeths to open the door. Evil is ready, lying in wait for just such a moment. Be warned! Evil knows no stop. Are you prepared?” Hélène Cixous, February 1, 2014

Dates: 24 and 26 April at 19h30. (Premiere on 23 April.) Cartoucherie de Vincennes, Route du Champ de Manœuvre, 75012 Paris

10 25 APRIL: L ES ENFANTS DU PARADIS, DIR. MARCEL CARNÉ (France, 190’, 1945, with English subtitles)

Special film screening at the historic Louxor cinema, designed in 1921 by architect Henri Zipcy and recently reopened to the public. The cinema features a neo-Egyptian façade with a mosaic by decorator Amédée Tiberti. In Children of Paradise, Shakespeare’s Othello is performed on a stage of the Boulevard du crime…

Le Louxor 170 Boulevard de Magenta, 75010 Paris

26 APRIL: O THELLO, DIR. LÉONIE SIMAGA In French.

Léonie Simaga Director Cast of the Comédie-Française

Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier

Following studies in literature and political science, Leonie Simaga trained at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art. In 2005, she joined the Comédie-Française, becoming its 520th member in 2010. Her performances include the title role in Kleist’s Penthesilea directed by Jean Liermier, Polly Peachum in Brecht’s Threepenny Opera directed by Laurent Pelly, Hermione in Racine’s Andromache directed by Muriel Mayette-Holtz and Silvia in Marivaux’s Game of Love and Chance directed by Galin Stoev. At the Comédie-Française, she has directed Nathalie Sarraute’s Over Nothing at All and presented a carte blanche event based on Marguerite Yourcenar’s Memoirs of Hadrian. Beyond the themes of jealousy and gullibility, she views Othello as a meditation on this unjustified and permanent hatred of a civilization for individuals condemned to fight their entire lives in order to escape the defamatory label of “negro”.

11 Museums

Registered participants are invited to visit several exhibitions dedicated to Shakespeare during the anniversary week.

M USÉE VICTOR HUGO 6 place des Vosges, 75004 Paris

HUGO, FATHER AND SON Exhibit open February 18 – June 15

Victor Hugo lived on the second floor of the Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée from 1832 to 1848. He wrote some of his major works there: Marie Tudor, Ruy Blas, Les Burgraves, Les Chants du crépuscule, Les Voix intérieures, a large part of Les Misérables, and was visited by Lamartine, Vigny, Dumas and Gautier. The visit of the apartment illustrates the three main stages of his life (before, during and after exile) through the display of his furniture, different memorabilia and some astonishing interior decoration carried out during his exile in Guernesey.

12 The museum is celebrating the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth with an exhibition on François-Victor Hugo, one of Shakespeare’s best-known French translators. The life and work of Victor Hugo’s youngest son will be illustrated by paintings, drawings, pictures, as well as by a wealth of manuscript sources and rare books and documents from the museum’s archives. François-Victor’s prefaces to his translations — published by Michel Lévy then by Pagnerre, from 1857 with the Sonnets and from 1859 to 1866 for the plays — also constitute an important contribution to Shakespeare studies. François-Victor Hugo’s work, which comes on the heels of the rediscovery of Shakespeare by the Romantics, supported by his father’s passion for the Bard, was to be prefaced by Victor Hugo’s William Shakespeare. The exhibition will give visitors a glimpse in the life of his son, François-Victor.

By invitation of the Museum. Scheduled visits for conference delegates.

M USÉE NATIONAL EUGÈNE DELACROIX 6 rue de Furstenberg, 75006 Paris www.musee-delacroix.fr

EUGÈNE DELACROIX, “le plus légitime des fils de Shakespeare” April 1-June 30

Exhibition around Shakespeare with works from the collection of the Eugène Delacroix museum

Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) was a learned artist. An avid reader, he loved music and often went to the theatre. In the 1820s and 1830s, he eagerly followed the changes in French theatrical practice. He was attracted by new notions on play- acting, notably those coming from England, as well as from the posthumous publication of Denis Diderot’s Paradox of Acting, which drew him to compare the abilities and artifice used by actors with the painter’s. In his Journal, an entry of January 1847 reads: ‘A painter must always improvise when he paints, and this is the crucial difference with the actor's task.’

William Shakespeare and his work hold a special place in Delacroix’s paintings, drawings and engravings. The painter often mentions the English playwright in his Journal, observing how deeply Shakespeare had helped shape English culture: ‘The English are all Shakespeare. He has made them what they are in everything” (April 4, 1849). He also attended a performance of Hamlet in 1827 at the Théâtre de l’Odéon featuring Harriet Smithson, the famous English actress who so impressed Parisian audiences in the part of Ophelia. Delacroix was fascinated with Hamlet, the sensitive and tormented prince. As early as 1825, when he was only 27, he painted the scene of Hamlet and his father’s ghost (Cracow, Muzeum Universytetu

13 Jagiellonskiego). In the early 1830s, he undertook a series of lithographs on Hamlet, in the same vein as his series to illustrate the French translation of Goethe’s Faustus, in 1827. In 1843, Delacroix himself paid for the publication of thirteen of his sixteen drawings. The Delacroix museum is fortunate enough to have all sixteen lithographic stones he used.

On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth celebrated in Paris, the Eugène Delacroix museum, located in the painter’s last home, where he lived from 1857 until his death in 1863, will show pieces from its collection, including the rarely-shown lithographic stones, as well as printed lithographs. Other Shakespeare-related works will also be exhibited, such as the moving Romeo and Juliet at the tomb of the Capulets.

Registered conference participants will be invited to visit the museum free of charge.

B IBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE Quai François-Mauriac, 75706 Paris Cedex 13

Exhibition on the Summer of 1914

By invitation of the BnF. Scheduled visits for conference delegates.

The exhibit discusses in great detail the events from July 23 to August 4, 1914, and the series of diplomatic, political, and military decisions that lead to the outbreak of World War I.

Performing Arts Department

A department that preserves and adds to the memory of all forms of performing arts (theatre, circus, mime, dance, etc.) The department endeavours to store all types of materials produced before, during and after performances: scripts of plays, manuscripts, mock-ups, sets, costumes and objects, photographs, audiovisual materials, posters, drawings and prints, programs and press cuttings, etc., as well as books and reviews. Every expression of live performance is represented in its collections: theatre, circus, dance, puppetry, street, etc., as well as cinema, television, and radio. The department also holds a large number of archive collections and collections from personalities and institutions (theatres, festivals, companies, etc.).

14 C OMÉDIE-FRANÇAISE Place du Palais-Royal, 75001 Paris

The Comédie-Française was born in the century of Louis XIV — the Sun King — from the centralising passion of a ruler known for his unwavering commitment to the performing arts.

Strengthened by its achievements, its battles and setbacks, armed with its traditions and its boldness, supported by its great actors, guided by its administrators, the three-centuries old Comédie-Française is more than ever passionately committed to live performance and ready to face the perils of the stage.

Backstage visit of the Comédie-Française for conference participants.

B ASILICA OF SAINT-DENIS 1 rue de la Légion d’Honneur, 93200 Saint-Denis

Introduction by Serge Santos, head administrator of the Basilica

Visit of the tombs of Clovis, Charlemagne, Catherine de’ Medici, Henri IV, Louis XIII, Louis XIV, or Henrietta Maria (wife of Charles I), among many others.

Followed by “Royal Imagery”, a performance by Chantal Schütz and Yan Brailowsky, accompanied by François Bonnet (lute) in the Apse of the Basilica

15 Other Shakespeare 450 events

In addition to the week dedicated to the April conference, other events are part of Shakespeare 450 during 2014

E XHIBITIONS, FILMS, READINGS, CONFERENCES

Much Ado about Nothing, a film by Joss Whedon, released in France on January 29 with some twenty post-film discussions organized by members of the Société Française Shakespeare

“Shakespeare, mode d’emploi”, a graduate seminar by Marc Porée à the ENS, every Thursday from 2 to 4pm, starting February 13

“Shakespeare et l’opéra romantique”, keynote speech by Damien Colas, at the Studio Bastille de l’Opéra, March 27

Othello, by Orson Welles, in a new remastered edition, Carlotta Films, release on April 23

“Shakespeare dans l’atelier romanesque”, four readings organized by the Bibliothèques de l’Odéon, and hosted by Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Florence Naugrette and Daniel Loayza, reading by Jacques Bonnaffé and Dominique Parent, April 29–30 and May 6–7

“Shylock, scélérat ou victime ? Lectures du Marchand de Venise”, round table at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, hosted by Dominique Goy-Blanquet and Gisèle Venet with Stéphane Braunschweig, Jean-Michel Déprats, and readings by Gérard Desarthe and Alice Vannier, May 12

“Shakespeare, l’étoffe du monde”. Des rives de la Tamise à celle de l’Allier : Shakespeare au CNCS, exhibition at the Centre National du Costume de Scène (CNCS), in Moulins, curated by Catherine Treilhou-Balaudé and Françoise Verdier, scenography by Delphine Lebovici, June 14 – January 5

“Shakespeare au Festival d’Avignon”, exhibition at the Maison Jean Vilar with the IRCL/ CNRS, from Montpellier (Florence March), through July

“Shakespeare dans le square”, Shakespeare readings and performance of Macbeth organized by the Shakespeare and Company bookshop, square Viviani, 75005 Paris, July 23–27

“Shakespeare devant ses proches”, conference organized by Yves Bonnefoy at the Collège de France, Fondation Hugot, November 6-7

“Rencontres autour de la scénographie et du costume dans la mise en scène contemporaine de Shakespeare en Europe”, organized by Catherine Treilhou-Balaudé, Christian Biet and Dominique Goy Blanquet, at the CNCS, December 4-6

16 B OOKS

Lettres à Shakespeare, edited by Dominique Goy-Blanquet forthcoming from Éditions Thierry Marchaisse (March 6)

Letters from Michèle Audin, Georges Banu, Pierre Bergounioux, Yves Bonnefoy, Hélène Cixous, Jacques Darras, David Di Nota, Florence Dupont, Michael Edwards, Robert Ellrodt, Raphaël Enthoven, Jacques Jouet, Michèle Le Dœuff, Alberto Manguel, François Ost, Pierre Pachet.

What is Shakespeare's place today in the realm of imagination and creative writing? We asked a number of writers who acknowledge a strong personal involvement with Shakespeare’s works to celebrate the 450th anniversary of his birth by addressing a letter to him, as a way of expressing what they owe to him, what they hold against him, what they envy him for… This collective correspondence, alternating joy, erudition, intimacy, levity and violence, opens with the fevered history of this French passion and closes with an unexpected twist, which suggests that Hamlet’s father is unlikely to cease haunting us in the near future.

S CHOOLS

An e-twinning program, in partnership with the French Centre for Pedagogical Resources

This program aims to offer schools an international exchange space around “Shakespearean projects”. It is currently being developed with the Paris Centre for Pedagogical Resources (CRDP), the school inspectorates for English and French Literature. Plans proposed will include study guides, creative projects, readings, performances and cross-cultural exchanges around Shakespeare's works.

Call for applications Shakespeare has the ability to speak to people of all age and degrees of knowledge, with songs, political action, wars, tales full of scenes both tender and cruel, bawdy and comic, violent or meditative and dreamy. With a single word, a burlesque scene can become tragic, oratory contests can turn into bloody battles, inner worlds can open up to infinite perspectives. He constantly displays invention and playfulness. The Shakespeare 450 project represents an invitation to read, to act or to play with him by giving free rein to new ideas with your pupils. Who will update Hamlet or Beatrice’s Facebook page? Who wants to put Brutus, Iago, Richard III, Angelo or Shylock on trial for attempted murder, to prosecute Lear for abandonment of post, or Falstaff for drunken driving? Who would like to change endings, to make Cordelia victorious, to organize a meeting between Hamlet and Rosalind in England? Or to get Bottom to rewrite A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or Dogberry to rescript All’s Well? To explore the Elizabethan planisphere with Antipholus, Pericles, Perdita, Fortinbras? To compose new sonnets? Or to ask Coriolanus to comment on recent news? Shakespeare as you like it.

17 Venues

Opening day: Odéon, Théâtre de l’Europe Place de l’Odéon, 75006 Paris

Plenaries: Sorbonne 17 rue de la Sorbonne, 75005 Paris École Normale Supérieure 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris École des Mines, Mines ParisTech 60 boulevard Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris

Registration desk: Institut du Monde Anglophone, 5 rue de l’Ecole de médecine, 75006 Paris From April 22-26, the registration desk will be at the École des Mines.

Shakespeare 450 map (includes details on all venues): http://goo.gl/maps/9eid7

Registration and programme

Registration: http://www.shakespeareanniversary.org/shake450/registration/

Online programme (includes full lists of participants, abstracts, etc.): http://www.shakespeareanniversary.org/shake450/programme/

18 Conference Schedule

M ONDAY 21 APRIL

8h-10h Registration at the Institut du Monde Anglophone, Paris-III, rue de l’École de Médecine

THÉÂTRE DE L’ ODÉON (simultaneous interpretation into English will be provided throughout the opening day)

11h Inaugural lecture by Yves Bonnefoy : « Pourquoi Shakespeare ? » 12h Andreas Höfele (Munich) : « Elsinore – Berlin: Hamlet in the Twenties » 15h Roundtable 1 with stage directors Luc Bondy and Georges Lavaudant, with Georges Banu 16h Roundtable 2 with stage directors David Bobée, Thomas Jolly, Vincent Macaigne and Gwenaël Morin, chaired by Leila Adham and Jean-Michel Déprats 17h30 Masterclass with actors Philippe Calvario, Vincent Dissez and Émeric Marchand

LE NOUVEAU LATINA

20h Othello by Orson Welles (new digitally remastered print)

T UESDAY 22 APRIL

ÉCOLE DES MINES 9h-10h30 Panel 3A Shakespeare Jubilees on three Continents (1864 and 1964) Panel 7 Telling Tales of / from Shakespeare: Indian Ishtyle Panel 20 Moving Shakespeare: Approaches in Choreographing Shakespeare Panel 24 Shakespeare’s World in 1916

11h-12h30 Panel 3 B Shakespeare Jubilees on three Continents (1864 and 1964) Panel 17 Shakespeare and the Popular Culture within/Beyond the Asian Identities Panel 27 Speaking ‘but in the figures and comparisons of it’? Figurative speech made literal in Shakespeare’s drama / page and stage Panel 28 A Shakespearean festivals and anniversaries in Cold War Europe 1947-1988

14h Ton Hoenselaars (Utrecht): Great War Shakespeare: ‘Somewhere in France’

15h30-17h30 Seminar 3 The Many Lives of William Shakespeare: Collaboration, Biography and Authorship Seminar 6 Global Shakespeare as Methodology Seminar 16 The Celebrated Shakespeare: public commemoration and biography Seminar 20 ‘The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together’: The Nature of Problem in Shakespearean Studies Workshop 4 Shakespeare Theatre Needs Francophone Actors

AUDITORIUM SAINT-GERMAIN

19h30 Film-concert: Hamlet by Sven Gade. Original score by Robin Harris

19 W EDNESDAY 23 APRIL

ÉCOLE DES MINES 9h-10h30 Panel 13 A Popular Shakespeares in East Asia: Local and Global Dissemination Panel 15 A Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory Panel 28 B Shakespearean festivals and anniversaries in Cold War Europe 1947-1988

11h-13h Seminar 9 Legal Perspectives on Shakespearean Theatre Seminar 12 ‘Green’ or Ecocritical Shakespeare: non-human nature as a character in his plays Seminar 13 The Shakespeare Circle Seminar 15 Shakespeare in French Film/France in Shakespearean Film

14h Peter Holland (Notre Dame, USA): Commemorating Shakespeare: From Westminster Abbey to Stratford-upon-Avon and beyond

16h-17h30 Panel 11 ‘The Undiscovered Country – the Future’: Shakespeare in Science Fiction Panel 15 B Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory Panel 31 Translations of Hamlet in Minority Cultures/Minor Languages Workshop 3 Textual and verse analysis in relation to performance: a workshop to read Shakespeare from the performer’s viewpoint

SORBONNE - AMPHITHÉÂTRE LOUIS LIARD Open to the public

11h-13h and 15-18h Joël Huthwohl (BnF Arts du Spectacle): “Shakespeare dans les collections du départements des Arts du Spectacle de la BnF”

Michèle Willems (Rouen): “Avec ou ‘sans muselière’? Les traductions de Shakespeare, de Voltaire à François-Victor Hugo”

Interviews with Christian Schiaretti and Stuart Seide, hosted by Jean-Michel Déprats Interview with Angela Antonini and Paola Traverso on their performance of Giordano Bruno’s Candelaio

T HURSDAY 24 APRIL

ÉCOLE DES MINES 9h-10h30 Panel 8 Shakespeare and ‘th’intertrafique’ of French and English Texts and Manners Panel 13 B Popular Shakespeares in East Asia: Local and Global Dissemination Panel 21 Diplomacy, International Relations and The Bard in the Pre- and Post-Westphalian Worlds Panel 26 Shakespeare in French Theory

11h-12h30 Panel 1 Shakespeare in Brazilian Popular Culture Panel 18 “As you like it” La psychanalyse à la rencontre de Shakespeare Panel 14 A Shakespeare and Levinas Panel 16 Shakespeare and Architecture

20 14h Michèle Le Dœuff (CNRS): “Comme il nous plaira”

15h30-17h30 Seminar 2 Biology through Shakespeare Seminar 7 ‘In this distracted globe’?: Cognitive Shakespeare Seminar 19 Shakespeare and Global Girlhood Seminar 21 Shakespeare Festivals in the 21st Century Workshop 1 Web link with the Argentina Shakespeare Association conference

OPÉRA BASTILLE

19h30 I Capuletti e i Montecchi by Bellini and

THÉÂTRE DU SOLEIL – CARTOUCHERIE

19h30 Macbeth directed by Ariane Mnouchkine

(Note: both performances are also scheduled on Saturday 26 April)

F RIDAY 25 APRIL

ÉCOLE DES MINES

9h-10h30 Panel 2 A Shakespeare et la science Panel 9 Bakhtinian Forays into Shakespeare Panel 19 ‘This Earth’ Panel 22 Shakespeare and Marlowe

11h-12h30 Panel 2 B Shakespeare and Science Panel 4 Secular Shakespeares Panel 12 Crossroads: 21st century perspectives on Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology Panel 14 B Shakespeare and Levinas

14h Dominique de Font-Réaulx (Musée Delacroix): “Les origines théâtrales de la photographie” 15h François Laroque (Paris-III): The plague of custom’. Shakespeare’s ambivalent anthropology

16h-18h Seminar 1 Shakespeare on Film: The Romances Seminar 4 Early Shakespeare Seminar 8 La fabrique du personnage shakespearien Seminar 17 Shakespeare and Denotement Workshop 2 ‘Shakespeare: Wherefore Art Thou ?’ The places in his plays and the places that he knew

CINÉMA LE LOUXOR

19h30 Les Enfants du paradis, by Marcel Carné (with English subtitles)

21 S ATURDAY 26 APRIL

ÉCOLE DES MINES

9h-10h30 Panel 5 A Born before and after Shakespeare Panel 10 A Shakespeare and Natural History Panel 23 Shakespeare, Satire and ‘Inn Jokes’ Panel 25 Shakespeare et les romans hispano-américains

11h-12h30 Panel 5 B Born before and after Shakespeare Panel 10 B Shakespeare and Natural History Panel 29 The ends of means of knowing in Shakespeare and his world Panel 30 Shakespeare et le roman

14h Sarah Hatchuel (Le Havre): The Shakespearean Films of the 1990s: Afterlives in transmedia

15h30-17h30 Seminar 5 Shakespeare and the Visual Arts Seminar 10 Shakespeare and Slavic / East and Central European Countries Seminar 11 It’s Shakespearian!’: The critical fortune of a commonplace in France from 1820 to the present Seminar 14 ‘Many straunge and horrible events’: Omens and Prophecies in Histories and Tragedies by Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Seminar 18 Shakespeare, Middleton and fatherless lineage Workshop 5 Working from cue scripts: An actor’s approach to performing duologues

THÉÂTRE DU VIEUX-COLOMBIER

20h Othello, dir. Léonie Simaga

(Alternate programme: I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Opéra Bastille, or Macbeth at the Cartoucherie. See April 24.)

S UNDAY 27 APRIL

10h-12h General Assembly of the Société Française Shakespeare Museum visits (Musée Delacroix, Musée Victor Hugo…)

BASILICA OF SAINT-DENIS

14h-18h Visit and performance on “Royal Imagery” Closing speeches

22 Organisation Dominique Goy-Blanquet, Chantal Schütz, Yan Brailowsky Academic Liaison Line Cottegnies, François Laroque Theatre Liaison Jean-Michel Déprats Press Officer Nathalie Gasser Graphic Designer Guillaume Blanquet

International steering committee

The Société Française Shakespeare has set up an international steering committee to collect information on past “Shakespeare Anniversaries” around the world and to prepare future celebrations. A dedicated website has been created to post the information online.

• Elisabeth Angel-Perez (Paris-IV) • Georges Banu (Paris-III) • Marcel Benabou (OuLiPo) • Christian Biet (Institut Universitaire de France) • Yan Brailowsky (Société Française Shakespeare) • Clara Calvo (Murcia, SEDERI) • Roger Chartier (Collège de France) • Jennifer Clement (Mexico) • Charlotte Coffin (Société Française Shakespeare) • Line Cottegnies (Paris-III) • Jean-Michel Déprats (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) • Michael Dobson (Birmingham and Shakespeare Institute, Stratford) • Tobias Döring (Munich, Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft) • Roy Eriksen (Kristiansand) • Dominique Goy-Blanquet (Société Française Shakespeare) • Sarah Hatchuel (Le Havre) • Andreas Höfele (Munich) • Ton Hoenselaars (Utrecht) • Peter Holland (Notre Dame) • Ioana Ieronim (Bucarest) • Dennis Kennedy (Dublin) • Douglas Lanier (New Hampshire) • François Laroque (Paris-III) • Jerzy Limon (Gdansk) • Declan McCavana (École Polytechnique) • Garth McCavana (Harvard) • Florence March (Avignon) • Martin Prochàzka (Prague) • Paola Pugliatti (Florence) • Aimara da Cunha Resende (Minas Gerais, Brazil) • Carol Rutter (Warwick) • Chantal Schütz (Société Française Shakespeare) • Patrick Sommier (MC93 Bobigny) • Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (Montpellier / IRCL) PSL www.univ-psl.fr Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) is a new research university comprised of the École normale supérieure, the Collège de France, MINES ParisTech, ESPCI ParisTech, Chimie ParisTech, the Observatoire de Paris, the Université Paris-Dauphine and the Institut Curie. These founding institutions have been recently joined by the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, the Conservatoire national supérieur d'Art dramatique, the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, La fémis, the Lycée Henri-IV, the Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Foundation, the Louis-Bachelier Institute and the IBPC Fondation Edmond de Rothschild. Paris Sciences et Lettres endorses a shared institutional ambition, a research strategy that encompasses the whole spectrum of academic disciplines and a common teaching strategy through the awarding of PSL degrees and shared initiatives to promote and disseminate knowledge.

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